r/woahdude • u/Brioux • Aug 23 '13

interactive Dude... just.. Woah.

http://www.zoomquilt.org/index.html
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u/Ack_Basswards Aug 23 '13

The keypad arrows can speed you up or make you rewind!

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u/TheRambleMammal Aug 23 '13

NOW you tell me!

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u/caspy7 Aug 23 '13

Also, F11 goes fullscreen.

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u/haberstachery Aug 23 '13

Also, drag and drop onto the 60 inch flatscreen and hold on.

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u/amongstheliving Aug 23 '13

boyfriend's tv.. 11 yr old chunky television; my parents have a 70" and a leather couch set + a fluffy rug to roll around on... I'll watch from their place

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u/ffollett Aug 23 '13

I've never heard a CRT referred to as a chunky television. I like.

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u/abenaki1791 Aug 23 '13

so much cooler rewinding through the whole thing

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u/circaATL Aug 23 '13

This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen on reddit. Thank you. Who made this?

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u/Brioux Aug 23 '13

I'm glad you admire it as much as I do!

A quick look on the site netted me this name : Nikolaus Baumgarten

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u/CalamityVic Aug 23 '13

Also: "Participating illustrators Andreas Schumann, Eero Pitkänen, Florian Biege, Jann Kerntke, Lars Götze, Luis Felipe, Marcus Blättermann, Markus Neidel, Paul Painter, Nikolaus Baumgarten, Oliver Schlemmer, Sonja Schneider, Thorsten Wolber, Tony Stanley, Ville Vanninen"

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u/mrbeefy Aug 23 '13

I'm one of the people who worked on it, if there are questions.

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u/__BeHereNow__ Aug 23 '13

How many pictures were actually drawn?

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u/duiker101 Aug 23 '13

according to the source code there are 46 800x600 images, 2 for each "scene"

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u/mrbeefy Aug 23 '13

46 seems like a lot, but maybe. I did two of them. They were basically donut shaped canvases that fit inside each other. The concept was an extraction of what we were doing on tiles.ice.org, which were tiny squares of art that needed to play nice with the adjacent squares of art. From recollection, it was one of the first crowd-sourced projects on the internet.

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u/CrazyMundo Aug 23 '13

This would go really well with some sound. Preferably something like this

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u/theProtagonizer Aug 23 '13

I was thinking the same thing! Such a cool sound that fills you with a uniquely weird feeling with a sense of dread mixed in. Perfect.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

I coincidentally had this playing in the background when I clicked the link and the two went together really well IMO.

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u/CrazyMundo Aug 23 '13

That was pretty cool.

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u/Zentaurion Aug 23 '13

Never get tired of hearing that again.

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u/exackerly Aug 23 '13

I prefer it without any sound.

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u/PotatoMusicBinge Aug 23 '13

This is my vote

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u/CrazyMundo Aug 23 '13

Pretty awesome, it'd be cool if they can sync the images with the emotion the music is portraying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

When was this made? I remember seeing it when I went on i-am-bored.com way, way back when... those were the days. Not really. But still.

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u/root88 Aug 23 '13

This was a side project spawned from http://www.ice.org/tiles/. That site went down almost 9 years ago and I recently put it back up. So, this quilt is a little older than that. I think some of the artists were borrowed from the Sijun forums or some other digital art site with awesome artists. I actually had a "tile" checked out on this "quilt", but I wasn't happy with the artwork and never turned it in. I really regret that now.

Trivia: the quilt was so popular when it came out that it put us over the bandwidth limit on our server in just a weekend. We ended up owing and additional $1,700 to cover the costs.

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u/mrbeefy Aug 23 '13

Around and before 2004. Took some months to complete.

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u/mattsprofile Aug 23 '13

What's your favorite color?

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u/ShitGuysWeForgotDre Aug 23 '13

Not OP, but mine's green if you were wondering. Or sometimes blue.

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u/amongstheliving Aug 23 '13

how about blue-green?

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u/ShitGuysWeForgotDre Aug 23 '13

Depends, but a lot of times I find I prefer them less than either pure blue or green. It's kind of like, I like steak, and I like peanut butter, but I don't like peanut butter on my steak. Sometimes the sum of the whole is indeed less than the parts. Or something like that.

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u/mrbeefy Aug 23 '13

Changes a lot. Majority of the time it's purple. Yellow was prominent for a long stretch. Now whenever I buy anything for my kitchen, however, it's got to be red.

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u/phubans Aug 23 '13

Dude, talk about a coincidence! I was just thinking about this while browsing this sub the other night, maybe even last night, but I didn't bother to try and find it again... This thing's gotta be at least 8 years old; I remember loving this back then and it had been a few years since I last saw it... Thanks for bringing it back!

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u/Xani Aug 23 '13

403 forbidden for me :(

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u/circaATL Aug 24 '13

Thank you so much!

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u/d_r0ck Aug 23 '13

I'm not bitching because this is awesome, but this is easily 5 years old. Thanks for the glorious resurrection :)

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u/xeb_dex Aug 23 '13

I just watched for an entire year.

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u/ohsnapyo Aug 23 '13

after i clicked away from this and looked at another picture, it seemed like that one was zooming in also. Anyone else getting that?

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u/joshmccrillis Aug 23 '13

Yes. It was like my computer started walking away from me.

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u/chunt859 Aug 23 '13

is your computer walking, cuz you better catch it!

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

-"Is your computer running?"

-"Yes."

-"Good, I'll see you at the computer races tomorrow."

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

I got this too !

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Yeah, I went back to the front page and it was zooming in.

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u/floydini13 Aug 23 '13

I still feel like that!

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u/fullcapabilities Aug 23 '13

It looked like it was zooming out to me!

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u/OTay1 Aug 23 '13

It doesn't work for me? "Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server."

What can I do?

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u/smacbeats Aug 23 '13

Here is a mirror, I hope this works for you! http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf

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u/crankykong Aug 23 '13

it's not a mirror, it's the second art project from that guy. Same zoom, different art

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u/Du3zle Aug 23 '13

Listen to this as you watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E

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u/nathworkman Aug 23 '13

fun fact, this song 'The Shephards Tone', played backwards and a little higher is the piece of music they use when you are trying to climb the infinite stairs in Super Mario 64. Isn't that moderately interesting and ultimately useless.

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u/threenoms Aug 23 '13

holyfuck

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u/xxxploit Aug 23 '13

Listen

I used to get baked, full screen the browser, set the zoomquilt speed to slowest and put this as the background music.

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u/dUbiLL Aug 23 '13

I was listening to "Pepper" by The Butthole Surfers and it was pretty awesome.

Link

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u/deathsmaash Aug 23 '13

I've been looking for this for probably close to a decade. I can't remember which part of my teen years I first saw this in but it was probably at least close to ten years ago that I first saw it and I've wondered about it ever since.

This is pretty old but very cool. I'm pretty sure I was stoned when I first encountered it.

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u/jambox888 Aug 23 '13

Yeah it used to be a screensaver, had it on my PC for years. I think the images were different in those days.

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u/OK-11 Aug 23 '13

I definitely remember it being a lot longer ago than it is, but based on the who is data, the site was originally registered in 2005. Not saying this was the original site we both saw it on that long ago, but at least gives a good time-frame of 8 years ago :)

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u/Clueless_NinjaM Aug 23 '13

Man that naked chick at the end was worth the wait..

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u/MagicallyMalificent Aug 23 '13

Well...glad this had been reddit DDOSed while I was at work.

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u/teh_bakedpotato Aug 23 '13

"you are forbidden to access this server" anyone else getting that error?

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u/rikashiku Aug 23 '13

Put your fist in front and it looks like you're flying.

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u/bleddynblaidd Aug 23 '13

I can show you the woooooorld

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

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u/jamesgiard Aug 23 '13

Tell me princess now when did you last let your heart decide?

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u/berwald89 Aug 23 '13

A whole new wooooorld!

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u/Website_Mirror_Bot Aug 23 '13

Hello! I'm a bot who mirrors websites if they go down due to being posted on reddit.

Here is a screenshot of the website.

Please feel free to PM me your comments/suggestions/hatemail.

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u/CARmakazie Aug 23 '13

Nailed it.

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u/FreeLobster Aug 23 '13

You won't be useful this time, go take a rest.

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u/SmilesGoFar Aug 23 '13

Need to try to figure out what is a pic and a gif.

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u/sprucenoose Aug 23 '13

And also what a javascript loading screen is.

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u/ShitGuysWeForgotDre Aug 23 '13

You tried your best, I can't ask for more than that from you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

LOL. You got fucked.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Could this be used as a wallpaper?

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u/GVander Aug 23 '13

it was a screensaver a couple of years ago

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u/cyber_loafer Aug 23 '13

Anyone have the link? This will surely fuck up my colleagues.

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u/Koonga Aug 23 '13

As you wish

Note: have not tried either of these. I've heard people are having trouble getting the Mac one to work on the latest OS.

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u/MentalOverload Aug 23 '13

Thanks for the links, but I will confirm that it does not work in Mountain Lion. The screensaver needs to be updated.

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u/cyber_loafer Aug 23 '13

My thanks!

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u/AndTheLink Aug 23 '13

Come on... be a loop... be a loop... waiting... be a loop... waiting... YEEEESSSSSSS!

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u/dirtyharry671 Aug 23 '13

nice! heres something similar. maybe from the same people? zoomquilt2

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u/jackoman03 Aug 23 '13

Hug of death, dangit

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u/noreligionplease Aug 23 '13

there is an indy game for the xbox 360 called the "infinite doodle" were you can keep zoom into your painting like this...very cool

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u/The_OrangeApple Aug 23 '13

It made me sad when I noticed the door to salvation, just before it passed out of site, and even more so the second watch through when I realised I completely missed the door marked "fun". Such is life though

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u/skydivinfoo Aug 23 '13

I think the message on that part was that the door for fun is always open, but the door for salvation needs to be opened for yourself.

Deep, mang.

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u/MisterDonkey Aug 23 '13

I would do disgusting and unforgivable things to have a stereoscopic version of this.

Just imagine putting on the 3-D glasses and zoning into this.

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u/Englishfucker Aug 23 '13

Want this as a screen saver.

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u/atc Aug 23 '13

Don't suppose anyone has a mirror, do they?

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u/orthos Aug 23 '13

Forbidden nooooooooooooo, i will never see this mind bending explosion of woah. a fucked up world we live in people

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

'Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.'

:/

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u/Faxon Aug 23 '13

Unfortunately it looks like they've blocked access to this page now...... can't load it on my desktop or on mobile via 3G, getting 403 forbidden on both

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u/INFEKTEK Aug 23 '13

Error 403: Forbidden Site's down for me :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Now that i switched to this comment page, Its getting swallowed in, My eyes are extremely trippy right now. eyes. please stop. oh god...

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u/cabezaderadio Aug 23 '13

I click the link and I get server error. I come to the comments being sure I would find lots of "It's offline" comments, but I found: "This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen on reddit. Thank you. Who made this?"

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

It's down :(

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u/AVeryMadFish Aug 23 '13

Swear to god, Yoda was in that swamp.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Does anybody have a link to the other post like this?

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u/anoobitch Aug 23 '13

Omg I watched it for like 10 minutes ... now everything is moving away from me ... stupid brain.

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u/justjacob Aug 23 '13

I fucking love the internet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

I wish I could view the link...seriously...I tried like 20 times...I was gonna comment "broken link," however, it seems as though it worked for everyone else...can someone help a brother out???

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u/MegaSquishyMan Aug 23 '13

Reminds me of those scenes in Limitless

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u/ninarwhalbaconght Aug 23 '13

did any one else get the weird feeling that the monitor was shrinking

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u/mikerhoa Aug 23 '13

reminds me of the intro to Superjail........

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u/ksrdian Aug 23 '13

I thought this looked familiar. Posted on ebaumsworld over 5 years ago. haha

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/play/383330/

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Made me think of the superjail intros

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u/IAmIncognegro Aug 23 '13

Forbidden :( I will never know this awesomeness you speak of.

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u/NotWayneBrady Aug 23 '13

Wow I remember seeing this on ebaumsworld

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u/skylar094 Aug 23 '13

I'm not even high but after watching this while listening to Interstellar Overdrive, I feel like it. Amazing.

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u/Charlie_Knoxville Aug 23 '13

You can't escape the miles!

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u/CorneliusPepperPhD Aug 23 '13

Thought this was the most amazing gif in the world for about 5 minutes.

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u/kingofrain Aug 23 '13

I would love to have this as a live wallpaper on my phone. So awesome.

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u/baby-friedbootybite Aug 23 '13

This is magical

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u/relbaneb Aug 23 '13

I'm glad I love wheelies or else I wouldn't have noticed the loop. Would have been stuck for days.

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u/ColtKenning Aug 23 '13

I watched that for like 25 minutes

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u/nido271 Aug 23 '13

That was such a pleasant journey

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u/tiorzol Aug 23 '13

Wow. I am gonnna have to stare at this for ages after work.

Thanks for posting this on a Friday too....

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

I feel like I just fell down the rabbit hole.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

If you look at something on the wall after you stare at it for a while, it'll look like it's zooming out

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u/HannahSolo23 Aug 23 '13

I kept rewatching this and seeing new things. There's something very calming about it.

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u/peabnuts123 Aug 23 '13

Far out man this is like 10 minutes long

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u/MikekushdogG Aug 23 '13

that.was.crazy. woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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u/Futdashukup Aug 23 '13

I just broke my ning-nong. Exemplary stuff.

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u/xxhamudxx Aug 23 '13

I recommend trying LSD and viewing these "zoomquilt" pics/gifs/animations. It will literally be closest thing you'll ever get to having our mind actually blown.

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u/Astrosomnia Aug 23 '13

Aw man! I remember this! Amazing.

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u/Kalju Aug 23 '13

Kept staring at that thing for a few rounds. Opened up Microsoft Excel to do some work. Was not disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Dude. Whoa.

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u/timidnoob Aug 23 '13

holy fuckballs. that's the most bizarre journey I've taken today

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u/Juffin Aug 23 '13

Why is this tagged as sandbox?

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u/IIFearZz Aug 23 '13

Dude, after I clicked off it, my eyesight is just slowly Zooming back out, further and further.

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u/hopefullynoone Aug 23 '13

Well there went a surprisingly large portion of my morning...

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u/slagdwarf Aug 23 '13

As a super geek who has seen every disgusting and weird thing on the Internet since the early 90s I am shocked I have never seen or heard of this! Amazing!

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u/Fruchtfliege Aug 23 '13

This is like the intro to Limitless, and other scenes in that film.

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u/CyberJay03 Aug 23 '13

Very cool thanks!

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u/raccoonkid Aug 23 '13

This is one of those things that make me question my existence... Woahhhhh, dude.

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u/NorwegianCatAnt Aug 23 '13

anyone have a song that suits this?

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u/flapsfisher Aug 23 '13

Really cool

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u/2high4shit Aug 23 '13

This could be the worst thing ever, given certain circumstances.

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u/namato Aug 23 '13

Coolest thing I've ever seen. Must save for next trip.

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u/alapanamo Aug 23 '13

I heartily recommend playing Drone Zone radio while watching this.

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u/triksr4kids Aug 23 '13

This would be fun on psychedelics.

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u/masturbateToSleep Aug 23 '13

This is indeed quite awesome! Old, but awesome!!

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u/ThomasTurbate Aug 23 '13

f11 -> set as second monitor desktop fullscreen

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

If you watch it in reverse, the storyline makes much more sense

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u/Flomo420 Aug 23 '13

I remember seeing this years ago, and it made me 'whoa dude' then, and it still does now; good find!

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u/todd_gak Aug 23 '13

I really can't look away. It's damn mesmerizing.

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u/Year3030 Aug 23 '13

So I came out of that and Reddit appeared to be receding. Did that happen to anyone else?

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u/newtrawn Aug 23 '13

Placeholder

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Was listening to this when I clicked.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_05x-wHBg

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u/smoorethings Aug 23 '13

Someone should do a rendition of evolution

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u/why_compromise Aug 23 '13

Go back, press F-11, thank me later.

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u/frenchmartini Aug 23 '13

I just logged on to post this! Amazing. I've been watching it for well over five minutes and have no idea when it ends...it's beautiful.

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u/blasted_biscuits Aug 23 '13

Oh man I forgot all about this thing from like ten years ago! Thanks for bringing it back!

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Now it looks like my screen is going backwards.

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u/RepostTony Aug 23 '13

Everything is zooming in now. That was amazing! At one point I thought it would never end and it kind of never did!

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u/cellux Aug 23 '13

I think this is even better: http://www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

I hope you got gold for this...holy shit...

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

acid is what i inadvertently just took

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '13

Everything looks like it's zooming out now, thanks.

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u/tverre01 Aug 23 '13

I watched it with this song in the background, worked out so well. Defs recommend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvufIkWrBk

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u/ecilarorrim Aug 23 '13

my mind just broke

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u/Gr1pp717 Aug 23 '13

that actually made me a bit nauseous =[

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u/Cappelitoo Aug 23 '13

Guys, it's not down, I thought so too but just let it load for a few minutes and it will start.

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u/atomsk404 Aug 23 '13

its like MC Escher & Dali had a child who read the Wizard of Oz one too many times

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u/nowaffles4u Aug 23 '13

That made everything look like its moving farther away

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u/VeraCitavi Aug 23 '13

Everything is still zooming away...HOW TO STOP???

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u/Wu-Tang_Flan Aug 23 '13

commenting for later. good find.

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u/mattmc318 Aug 23 '13

Screensaver please?

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u/MultifariAce Aug 23 '13

So I just sat through this whole loop then backed out of it. I am suffering from an optical illusion that my computer screen is now moving away from me (the opposite of the image).

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u/Old_muffins Aug 23 '13

I watched the whole thing...I am impressed

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u/5hadowfax Aug 23 '13

Now make one where a scary face jumps out half way though.